Satsop Hills, Railroad bridge in Shelton, US

The Vance Creek Bridge is a steel railroad trestle in the Satsop Hills, standing 347 feet (106 m) above Vance Creek at 47°20′04″N 123°19′17″W. It was the highest railroad bridge in the United States and remains among the twenty highest bridges in the country. It sits on closed private land crossed by logging roads and an abandoned Simpson Timber Company logging railroad.

The hills take their name from the Satsop River, which rises in them and drains a 300-square-mile watershed south to the Chehalis River. The Morning Oregonian used the term "Satsop hills" as early as 1885, when it reported forest fires there. In September 1902 catastrophic fires burned from Elma to Summit Lake, destroying a million board feet of lumber at a mill above Elma and darkening Montesano at noon on September 12. Fire lookouts were later built on several peaks.

The hills carry names from the logging era: the abandoned Simpson Timber Company railroad still crosses them, and the Vance Creek Bridge, 347 feet above the creek, was the highest railroad bridge in the United States. The name "Satsop hills" appeared in the Morning Oregonian as early as 1885, in reports of forest fires.

The Vance Creek Bridge stands on closed private land, so it cannot be walked; the hills are reached by extensive logging roads and an abandoned Simpson Timber Company railroad. Truman Glick County Park, 35 acres along that railroad on the southern side, and Schafer State Park on the Satsop River at 125 feet are the established access points. Expect mud and rain: Wynoochee Oxbow, at the west end, records the highest average annual rainfall in the continental United States.

The Vance Creek Bridge stands 347 feet (106 m) above Vance Creek and was the highest railroad bridge in the United States when built. It remains among the twenty highest bridges in the country. Despite being on closed private land, it became one of the more popular destinations on the Olympic Peninsula through millions of social media images.